A Retired Teacher in Mexico City

Last year I was at the Museum of Popular Arts to see the entries for their annual kite contest.  When I saw that the kites for this year...

You may remember that the previous week I had planned to visit special exhibits at three museums in downtown Mexico City.  As it turned out,...

A few days ago I finished another book.  This one was "The Valley of Amazement" by Chinese-American writer Amy Tan. Tan gained fam...

This morning I wrote about the Churches of Santa Veracruz and San Juan de Dios which are both settling unevenly into Mexico City's soft ...

Due to Mexico City's spongy soil, many buildings in the Historic Center have settled unevenly.  That is the case with two colonial churc...

  The third exhibit at the Museo Kaluz was not an art exhibit, but a look at a Mexico City neighborhood... "colonia" Guerrero, whi...

Between 1939 and 1942 more than 25,000 refugees fleeing the fascist regime of Francisco Franco came to Mexico at the end of the Spanish Civi...